Margaret Menzel Award - Genetics

The Genetics Section is pleased to remember DR. MARGARET MENZEL. The Margaret Menzel Award is presented by the Genetics Section for the outstanding paper presented in the contributed papers sessions of the annual meetings. The Menzel award distributes $200 each year.

2001 - Briana Gross, Willamette University For her paper entitled "Potential multiple origins for Helianthus deserticola, a diploid hybrid species." Her paper was co-authored by Andrea Schwarzbach and Loren Rieseberg.

2000 - Joel Duff, University of Akron For his talk co-authored by Mark Davis and Angela Boyle and entitled "The fate of conserved ribosomal DNA and protein-coding gene clusters during the evolution of land plant mitochondrial genomes."

1998 - Paula Randall, Brigham Young University For for her talk entitled "Homologs of the Antirrhinum majus centroradialis and floricaula genes in Atriplex garrettii."

1990 - Jonathan F. Wendel, Iowa State University For his paper co-authored with James M. Stewart and Jeffrey H. Rettig, "Molecular evidence for the origin of Gossypium bickii via homoploid reticulate speciation."

1989 - Claude W. De Pamphilis, University of Michigan For his paper, "Evolution of chloroplast DNA under relaxed selection in beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana: Orobanchaceae), a nonphotosynthetic angiosperm."

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